Have you ever seen anything this ironic before?
I just received this message from another user:
Subject: Racism I have never seen it ever!!!
Message: Racism I have never seen it ever!!!
I have seen lots of programs to favor blacks like getting into college with lower scores , getting free government apartments , and watched as the blacks trashed them, because whitty owned them. blacks do most of the crime in the USA , ect ,ect
So what is going on here?
Here is where the problem started
When Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation it created problems that are still with us today , in the mind of the blacks.
First of all
The Emancipation Proclamation is an executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War using his war powers. It was NOT a law passed by Congress.
It was done as an act of War
In the mind of the blacks the Proclamation said they not longer had to work , but it did not say that at all , but they believed that is what is was for .......so blacks left their jobs on the southern farms and headed North
When asked well if you think you don't ever have to work , who will do the work of a man to support his family then?
The blacks answer was Uncle Lincoln Soldiers will do OUR work for US , so right there Lincoln created a welfare state in their minds ,,,,,and each new black generation teaches this Idea of not working to its black children....., but in the minds of the white population they precieved the Proclamation as freeing the poor slaves , who really were just working a normal farm job and getting full corporate benefits ,free housing
In reply, I wrote:
I don't believe I have ever seen a better example of irony than a message entitled "Racism I have never seen it ever!!!" followed by a characterization of slavery as "just working a normal farm job and getting full corporate benefits ,free housing" and arguing that the Emancipation Proclamation made it so that blacks think they don't have to do work forever more.
The word irony is often misused, but I've never seen anything fitting the definition of the word so perfectly. Wow.
So my question is, have you ever seen a better example of irony, defined as "the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning?"
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/irony
In case you're curious, the message was in response to my answer to this question:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=At5FLIRdI0xb9ss5yz.8g4vsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20120726070757AArJWkW
from this user:
http://answers.yahoo.com/activity?show=SMRWom5naa
I don't blame people for ignorance. Normally, when someone shows ignorance with this sort of rant, I will respond with information, being the best way to combat ignorance. But I don't think there is anything I can say, certainly not within the character limits on this website, to educate someone who defends their previous comments with this new message I received:
From: ?
Subject: Re: Racism I have never seen it ever!!!
Message: You have NO brains and no sense , what do you think people did in the 1850's , write software,,, no , they all farmed and worked the land , so if your farm could feed and house you ,,,, You were doing good ,,, if not you went and worked for a better farmer ,,, not writing software for him, but working the crops and fields ,,,, so a black or white worked the farm ,,, all did ,,,, better farmers hired other field workers to help him and he most often paid in food and housing , not money , so the best you could get was to have a large successful farm